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...South? Can the South solve its racial and economic problems by itself? Both these questions got a partially affirmative answer last week from Hodding Carter, youthful publisher of the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat-Times. No bourbon-&-magnolia reactionary, Carter won a Pulitzer Prize this year for his forthright editorial stand against racial intolerance (TIME, May 20). In a Saturday Evening Post article, Southerner Carter admitted that the South has a chip on its shoulder, then let go some resentment toward carping Northern critics. Wrote...
...Friendly. He was forthright in the extreme. He asked a G.I. in Italy last week if he had an Italian girl friend. When the G.I. hesitated, then answered "No, sir," Ike grinned and said: "The Army has gone to hell." He stated the dream of peace in strictly G.I. language to soldiers at Gorizia: "We are so friendly we do not want to fight any more. We do not want anything to interfere with the World Series." He told reporters in Berlin that he felt there was too much pessimistic talk in the world, pointed to the Allied Control Council...
...Harvard's reconsidered opinion. In a letter of "apology," it has been revealed that, due to the shortage of facilities, tennis courts are no longer available to students who are not members of the varsity tennis squad or Freshmen required to take physical education. Here is the bold and forthright answer to the University of Chicago's short-sighted de-emphasis of athletics that the rest of the nation's colleges have been looking for. At last a first-rate institution has spoken up in defense of intercollegiate competition--even at the expense of a general athletic program...
Both national and Wisconsin Democratic leaders were in a swivet. Should they read Bobrowicz out of the party-and thus confess their error? Should they keep him and try to brazen it out? Or should they piously denounce Communism and let it go at that? Most forthright reaction came from Representative Andrew Biemiller, Democrat from the adjoining 5th District. He was against letting Communists crawl into office disguised as Democrats...
...Russia considers necessary to her safety and with which she will feel no need for further guarantees or concessions. They should also realize that our international manuevers are not seen by the Russians in the same light by which we view them, and that Russia is entitled to a forthright exposition of our aims and intentions...